With titles being produced by DreamWorks Animation becoming very much hit and miss when it came to box office results Jeffrey Katzenberg approached Gladiator screenwriter John Logan to pen a script for an animated Sinbad film in the hopes of creating their own Aladdin money-making machine to compete with Disney, sadly, this was not to…
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The Prince of Egypt (1998) – Review
After kicking off their animated division with Antz, a blatant cash-in of Pixar/Disney’s animated flick A Bug’s Life, DreamWorks decided to boldly venture into territory rarely explored by family-friend animated films, that of the Bible story. Aside from such straight-to-video offerings like the Veggie Tales religion and cartoons seldom mixed and when Jeffrey Katzenberg decided…
Batman Returns (1992) – Review
When 1989’s Batman made over $400 million worldwide the idea of a follow-up film was a no-brainer, but Tim Burton wasn’t all that interested in returning to the world of Gotham City and this left the studio a little stressed, with big money on the line, and the execs over at Warner Brothers were not…
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) – Review
“You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil?” There is no more iconic Disney villain than that of Maleficent, a woman who commands “All the forces of Hell” and is most known for casting a death curse on a baby, yet with the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, the…
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Review
In 2015, Marvel’s Ant-Man could easily have come across as a low-rent Iron Man – both featuring high-tech costumed heroes – but instead, the studio doubled down on the comedy and we got an incredibly fun caper flick that surprised many a viewer. Now, with 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, we get the answer to…